Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Bio: Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Known for:
- Poems of Passion (1883)
- Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Maurine and Other Poems (1882)
- Poems of pleasure.. (1888)
- Poems of Power (1901)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes